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Soc Sci S1 All Vocab Flashcards

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A relatively new scientific approach to studying the natural world

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Earth System Science (ESS) ; pg. 5

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2
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the 4 classifications of the ESS system

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Subsystems ; pg. 6

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3
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the subsystem that includes earth and rock

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Geosphere ; pg. 6

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4
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the subsystem that includes water and ice

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Hydrosphere ; pg. 6

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5
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the subsystem that includes living organisms

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Biosphere ; pg. 6

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External forces that alter the balance of the subsystems

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Forcings ; pg. 6

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phenomenon where climate change causes a reaction that amplifies the initial direction of climate change

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Positive Feedbacks ; pg. 6

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phenomenon where climate change causes a reaction that goes against the initial direction of climate change

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Negative Feedbacks ; pg. 6

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the scope of the investigation; can be large or small, either geographically or chronologically

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Scales ; pg. 6

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10
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Another word for geosphere and incorporates the greek words for rock or stone

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Lithosphere ; pg. 6

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a measure of time based on the record of rocks in which change is sometimes measured at the pace of millions or billions of years

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Geological Time Scale ; pg. 7

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12
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The subsystem for ice

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Cryosphere ; pg. 7

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13
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The concentration of certain gases (one is carbon dioxide) released from the Earth’s other subsystems traps heat in the lower layers of the atmosphere

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Greenhouse gas Effect ; pg. 7

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14
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Pattern of Earth’s movement in relation to the Sun that influence the Sun’s impact on climate change overtime

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Milankovitch cycles ; pg. 7

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Point of no return when changes in a climate system become irreversible

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Tipping point ; pg. 9

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16
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A physical repository of documents

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Archive ; pg. 10

17
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Natural features that show evidence of being impacted by specific climate conditions

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Proxy ; pg. 10

18
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Water is released from clouds

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Precipitation ; pg. 12

19
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Consists of a group of scholars who share common practices for studying the type of evidence they analyze

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Scholarly field ; pg. 14

20
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field that reconstructs past climates utilizing methods for studying sources in nature, like ice core samples

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Historical climatology ; pg. 14

21
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Another thing for historical climatology

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Paleoclimatology ; pg. 14

22
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academic field that uses methods of historians and studies sources produced by human to reconstruct past climate conditions

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Climate history ; pg. 14

23
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New interdisciplinary field that focuses on the history of the relationship between climate and human societies

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History of climate and society (HCS) ; pg. 14

24
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Matter left behind by formerly living organisms that can be burned to create energy that releases carbon

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Fossil Fuels ; pg . 16

25
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Method of telling historical narratives in which climate drives social and environmental changes overtime

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Climate Determinism ; pg. 19

26
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Something that causes something else to occur

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Causal mechanisms ; pg. 19

27
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A new geological era in which humans have become the driving force in planetary change ; the era in which we live today

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Anthropocene ; pg. 5

28
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Scholars and the public use this term to describe a complex process of changes in the natural world

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climate change ; pg. 5

29
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Refers to the design of greenhouses that capture heat from the Sun and are commonly used for agriculture

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greenhouse gases ; pg. 8

30
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Reactions to climate change caused by forcings

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feedbacks ; pg. 8

31
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The places that holds sources that were produced by humans and includes info about the climate

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archives of society ; pg. 10

32
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The place that holds sources from nature

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archives of nature ; pg. 10

33
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A technique that involves the drilling of long cylinders of ice out of deep glaciers

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Ice core sampline ; pg. 10

34
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The practoce of gathering information from trees

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Dendrochronology ; pg. 11

35
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A study of climate that relies primarily on the archives of nature

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Climatology ; pg. 14

36
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A subsystem that includes the layers of gases encircling Earth

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Atmosphere ; pg. 5

Soc Sci Section 1 24-25 (7 decks)

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